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Well I admit the trend changed but I got a series of downvotes following my comment, I made this comment then when I had actually received way more downvotes than upvotes

I realize now that everybody here does not have the same definition of "propaganda".

A subjective news alone might not be considered propaganda by all, but as soon as editorial choices by a news outlet repeat the same bias it becomes propaganda.

Maybe the distinction between "piece of news" and "content delivered by a media outlet" was unclear in my original comment, my bad then.

You said it. Editorial choice makes an "objective news" subjective. Deciding what to publish or not is the key.

I don't believe in "attempts at being objective". What is needed are newspapers clearly stating their bias so that you know where to stand when you read those.

I 100% agree with you, so let me clarify what I was trying to say in my first comment.

US will label as propaganda any article coming from RT - for Russia, or that Iranian journal - for Iran, and now FB starts simply censoring those contents.

At the same time in Russia or Iran, news coming from US are labelled as propaganda as well.

Depending on where you live, you get fed either one of these "propaganda" and you feel you are on the "good" side and that others are on the "bad" side.

My point is the world is not divided between "good" and "bad", everything is not black or white, and the fact that a website with billions of users has the power to decide what is good or bad (or has the obligation to follow directives from a government) is a very bad idea imho.

What bothers me is that there are very few things that are not propaganda.

All Fox News article are propaganda, all CNN articles are propaganda, but yet they are accepted? Clearly a distinction is made between 'acceptable propaganda' and 'unacceptable propaganda', and this distinction is made by Facebook, an American company.

How acceptable is that?

I did not want to spoil it all :)

Well, about half the comments are saying "Only 18k$ for 7 weeks, that is so little", I think it is nice to be reminded that some of the most important jobs are paid a misery compared to what we earn as programmers.

Spoilers : he did not actually get paid $18,000

Can you add sources to justify this statement?

Well, following Snowden's revelations we learned that NSA was spying on European countries' citizens and administrations, the US president (Obama at the time) just said that spying on allies was a perfectly natural thing.

This is definitely a one-sided relationship.

You can be sure that the US will never extradite anyone for that at least.

I don't know how long ago you are talking about, but I am pretty sure nowadays most schools go through contractors too for cooks and janitors (I actually did not go to school in the US so correct me if I am wrong)

Reading you it looks like Google does not hire anyone.

Google is a tech company, it is perfectly natural for them to have contractors when it comes to people working in the cafes for example, because training or interviewing cooks will be done better in a company actually focused on training and interviewing cooks.

You are absolutely right, there is actually a whole panel of different techniques that aim at getting you accept offers you would not accept straight on.

I believe as a consumer it is important to be aware of those different manipulation techniques so you can step back and take a rational decision.

For example in case of call for sale, it should trigger an alarm telling you to walk away. If you have a high interest in the product and want to call anyway, make sure to know what price you are willing to pay BEFORE calling and do not commit to anything during the call.

It is actually a form of "foot in the door" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique.

If you see a high pricing on their webpage you might go away immediately. But if you make the effort to calling them, you are already committing yourself and you are more likely to accept a higher price than you would have if it was easily accessible.

French here.

To be honest in France almost nobody knows who is seating at the European Parliament, we have absolutely no visibility to what is being voted, even less who voted what.

A commonly accepted view (at least around me, I might be biased) is that our representatives there are useless, whoever they are. We had about 60% abstention in 2014's elections, I think that says it all.

> By default, we bill by the minute, not the second, to deter short duration calls and impair the economics of robocalls.

Do they really expect us to believe the reason they bill by the minute is to fight against robocalls?

After models X and Y, can't wait for models Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

I wish they would require executives to eat their food everyday, in a Super Size Me fashion

As far as we know there is no plan to make money. It has been founded and funded by a French billionaire who did not like the way traditional high education works.

I am personally really happy with the program, I started 3 years ago and there are so many different projects and different paths you can choose that I am planning on staying there for some time

42 student here. I feel it is important to share a few facts about 42 regarding this Lambda hype.

42 is a tuition-free school. It means you don't get to pay anything to the school EVER.

42 is not remote. You need to go to the school to do your projects. We believe it is important to be in contact with other students, exchange, learn from each other.

42 provides free accommodation as long as you show your commitment to learning and improving = if you stop coming to school you do not have access to accommodation anymore.

42 program is about 2 to 3 years long. Best students can graduate in a bit over a year when some others stay 4 or 5 years, it really depends on how dedicated you are, but everybody can have its own rhythm.

Check it out :) https://www.42.us.org/

I am a student at 42, and I have to correct you on one really important point : 42 does not have anything as "pay later out of salary". It is a tuition free school period. Also it is not remote, you need to go to the school everyday, and they provide free accommodation as long as you reach the targeted progress each month.

It is not the same. Previous one was showing his face

Depends if you consider several millions US$ as 'enough income'

If many people use this bot, it will make Trump's comments actually effective, which is a pretty bad idea imho.

What about a bot which would do just the opposite?

There is one major problem : the answers are sent immediatly after receiving the email.

This is obviously suspicious, considering most of the mails require at least a few minutes of reading + time to write the mail.

I guess adding a delay would improve the bot's credibility by a lot!

Is there any way to have multi-language support?